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  • Because it is time-consuming and expensive to devein and denerve the hindquarters of cattle, the hindquarters are sold outright to the general public along with "trief" meat unfit for the kosher consumer.

    Why Kosher Meat Is A Healthier Alternative GreenFertility 2008

  • "Journalism can be kosher if practiced the right way, but it can be very unkosher, it can also be, as we say, trief, if practiced the wrong way," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • "Journalism can be kosher if practiced the right way, but it can be very unkosher, it can also be, as we say, trief, if practiced the wrong way," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • "I like to think that when my rabbi said, 'Put that newspaper away, that's trief,' he was speaking about bad journalism, not good journalism," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • "Journalism can be kosher if practiced the right way, but it can be very unkosher, it can also be, as we say, trief, if practiced the wrong way," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • "I like to think that when my rabbi said, 'Put that newspaper away, that's trief,' he was speaking about bad journalism, not good journalism," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • "I like to think that when my rabbi said, 'Put that newspaper away, that's trief,' he was speaking about bad journalism, not good journalism," Goldman said.

    Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher? Josh Fleet 2010

  • Maybe for the sequel to this article someone can write, “Beit Yosef - The true Glatt Kosher - not that Rubashkins trief.”

    The Heirs of Slytherin | Jewschool 2007

  • As soon as it began to help the Jewish “leaders” keep the Jewish masses ignorant and backward, it ceased to be “trief.”

    How Hasidim Became the Enemies of Progress | Jewschool 2006

  • I think people misundertand that keeping Kosher means making food in a trief free environment.

    Aish.com 2009

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